From b539cef31c060c7eecc331d25a23b80ded0baf08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sanyam Khurana <8039608+CuriousLearner@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:44:47 +0530
Subject: bpo-35614: Fix pydoc help() on metaclasses (#11357)

---
 Lib/test/test_pydoc.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Lib/test/test_pydoc.py')

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
index 409fea4a5e..c58a8b13e7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -636,6 +636,17 @@ class PydocDocTest(unittest.TestCase):
         # Testing that the subclasses section does not appear
         self.assertNotIn('Built-in subclasses', text)
 
+    def test_builtin_on_metaclasses(self):
+        """Tests help on metaclasses.
+
+        When running help() on a metaclasses such as type, it
+        should not contain any "Built-in subclasses" section.
+        """
+        doc = pydoc.TextDoc()
+        text = doc.docclass(type)
+        # Testing that the subclasses section does not appear
+        self.assertNotIn('Built-in subclasses', text)
+
     @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
                      'Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above')
     @unittest.skipIf(hasattr(sys, 'gettrace') and sys.gettrace(),
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